Purple Hibiscus Obiora Quotes

#1. Good manners warred with curiosity, and lost.

Marie Brennan

#2. The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.

Louis C.K.

#5. Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.

Anna Godbersen

#6. Christ crucified is not a riddle for sages, but a plain truth for plain people; true, it is meat for men, but it is also milk for babes. (Come ye children, p50)

Spurgeon, Charles H.

#7. So had begun and had ended a sincere effort to be of public service on the part of a well-intentioned but unreflecting and over-comfortable

Anton Chekhov

#8. A] One is in a different place, so the protective barriers no longer exist. To begin with this can be alarming, but soon one gets used to it and starts understanding how many interesting things there are beyond the walls of one's garden.

Paulo Coelho